The allowance given to understanding the enemy is conditioned with the denial of the right to hate the enemy. There is no celebration over the demise of our foes yet they measure the sale of beheading and torture videos by the tonnage. Maybe it really boils down to monotheism V polytheism and while we placate the Gods of Law and Economics and Perception and Politics and Policy and Opinion Polls and Political correctness, they slip quietly away unscathed across borders and into population dense no-kill zones.